Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming?

Re:Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? by DeathArrow on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @02:32AM (#22863265)

I find it ok for it's intended original use, which is browser scripting. It's totally fine to write small JS scripts to make the pages a bit more interactive.

People got it wrong when they started writing huge applications in JS.

Just because a language is Turing complete, it doesn't mean it's fitted for everything.

It's like you did your job fine as a carpenter using carpenter's tools and you get a dentist job, but you insist on using carpenter's tools because you already know them.

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Re:Ask HN: How to rediscover the joy of programming? by wlll on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @07:45AM (#22864772)

Yeah, I've recently started using Stimulus JS for the odd enhancement to web pages on a personal project. That's far enough.

Interestingly I believe the sendmail config file syntax is Turing complete. You could theoretically create a web app using SMTP as the backend API.

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